Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-12-15
BAR HARBOR.
! a Wild, Weird Tale Of Love
and Adventure ~
9x AMOS LEE.
PUBLISHED BIZ SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH
THE AUTHOR.
Copyrighted 1887, 6va6ssW. Diuiaghdss
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THE AUTHOR.
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Copyrighted 1887, 6va6ssT. Diuiagh4m-Anl
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CHAPTER xu.-CoNr1NuEp.
The others of the household were for send
ing out Immediately to search the neighbor-
hood and discover some trace of the lost
Frlncess- All the available males were
accordingly pressed into the service and
sent out to scour the country in every direc-
ton The first objective point, of course,
was the road in the vicinity of the pool %
But not the slightest clue could there be
discovered. The heavy rains had obliterated
all the wheeltracks made by the wagon
into the wood, where the Princess had first
been carried. Searching far and wide, they
could lind positively nothing in the way of
trace of their lost mistress
Meanwhile, DiInitri returned from an in
terview with the carriers, and these individ-
uals all agreed IN saying that they had seen
horsewoman emerge from the cliff road
and ride rapidly toward the village ON the
public road. From their description of the
woman and her horse, it could be none other
than the Princess herself.
They met with no stranger, excepting
huntsman who hailed them near the cliff
road, and got them all into some angry
dispute with regard to the land Whereabouts
They, too, observed the loud whistle but
supposed it that Of some hunter calling his
dogs.
Ere Dimitri left the inn, farmer, also
living in the neighborhood, entered,
drenched through and through by the
storm. On his way to St Malo, he had be-
come alarmed at the severity of the storm,
and, surprising it an all-night affair, turned
back to the inn Of the village.
Dimitri remembered meeting. with him,
just after Catherine and himself passed the
pool.
Here now was clue
The wagoners were not to be diverted
from their idea that they saw the Princess
going toward the pool
Had this farmer, on the opposite side of the
pool, seen herl No, he had not. He saw
no one, excepting a stranger whom he found
sitting by the roadside. This man and him
self enjoyed long talk about crops-a talk
of perhaps one quarter of an hour in length.
No woman passed them. OF that he was
sure-at least no woman excepting the one
t'with that man, pointing to Dimitri and
referring, of course, to Catherine. He, too,
observed the sharp calls of the whistle.
Lydia listened quietly to Dimitri's story.
Here, at last, was a trace to Natalie-the
only clue, perhaps, to her disappearance.
"Send for all the wagoners and the farm
er, immediately said she, authoritatively.
The dripping band of peasants soon ap-
peared in the hall, little rivulets tFickling
down from their drenched garments and
covering the floor with miniature ponds.
They stood huddled together, awe-struck
and awkward.
Questioning them, Lydia found that Nata-
lie must have been lost between the wagon
ers on one side of the pool and the farmer
on the other side; and, therefore, in the
nelghborhOod of. and very probably at, the
pool itself; and that the stranger who
conversed with the farmer, and also the
huntsman who disputed with the carriers,
were, undoubtedly, accessories to the alb
duction-for they both disappeared almost
Immediately after the second whistle. =
The wagoners said that the first call was
heard just before they saw the Princess.
The mystery of Natalie's disappearance
now became clear to Lydia
The huntsman-ah! would she have be-
heved her ears had she been told who he
was?-must have been on the watch for the
poor girl. The warning signal of her ap-
proach toward the abductors was the first
blast of his whistle. This, too, warned the
outpost on the opposite side of the pool and
both outposts stopped all passengers upon
the road, thus preventing interference with
the capture of Natalie
As soon as the Princess had been secured,
her captors, in turn, gave the signal to their
acoomplices that the deed was done and the
coast clear.
Unless Natalie was still in the neighbor-
hood of the pool-which was highly improb-
able-she must have been carried toward
the seacoast; for that she and her captors
did not COME toward the village was quite
certain from the statement of the peasants;
the abductors must, therefore, have fol-
lowed the opposite direction-so reasoned
Lydia; and correctly. But her intuition
told her it was too late now for rescuing her
friend.
A full hour and half had elapsed since
Natalie's disappearance, and it was now al
most eight o'clock. To the sea-coast from
the pool was drive of perhaps three-quar-
tiers of an hour. Therefore, if NasIie had
been carried thither, she was by thisISaSur
far at sea, undoubtedly. 49,
Still, as the storm gave signs of abating,
Lydia ordered her carriage to follow, while
she herself, with Dinitri and others, has
tened forward On horseback to the coast
Dimitri had always imagined his mistress
peerless rider, but found Lydia quite her
equal Do their best, the men were always
some distance behind her.
They met several of the searching party,
who declared that every nook and crevice
had been examined-more especially in the
neighborhood of the brook. All. efforts
failed to discover any thing like the faintest
clue-beyond grove in which there mad
been recent encampment- Bits of bread